Do a search on 'buran' on google. Truth of the matter, and the point of the story is that in US American achievements in space are given *far* greater emphasis/importance than anybody else's. We in Russia new more about Apollo, Saturn, etc. than you about Luna, Lunokhod, Venera and lots of other things. Hell, many younger Americans believe that *US* had put the first man in space!
Of course it is -- anyone claiming this to be the end of fxree simply don't understand the difference b/w "core team" and "developmetn team" -- the former is like a board of directors, if you wish, while the latter is what makes or breaks the project.
Yeah, maybe. That's after they managed to surpass recommended limit of 1e6 rows per table (just in case it corrupts). And even in current incarnation they still don't (always) get ANSI joins right. What is even funnier, they sometimes don't get their own syntax right either. I had a couple of cases when I ended up having to *emmulate* a join via UNION SELECT with EXISTS/NOT EXISTS!
As should have been expected this thread gets all lost in "MySQL lacks [insert many of ACID and a bunch of other features]" and "who ever needs this stuff anyway!" posts. Which is common for any thread about MySQL. It is all very personal -- you either like it or you don't basically. It is like vi vs. EMACS of databases argument. And as always our wonderful geek crowd will never ever agree on anything here. Just like in the UserLinux GNOME vs. KDE debate, and a ton of others.
Not to be critical -- it just *is* that way and will hardly change, not in our lifetime, at least.
People could recall the presence of animated advertising on sites much more than static advertising but the recall of the content of animated advertising was not any better than static advertisements.
is simply hillarious: of course they did! That stupid jumping-singing red and yellow thing that has been distracting them at the corner of an eye!
It is interesting that the sight is called "Usability News" -- yet the article is entirely where-should-we-put-an-ad-to-trick-a-user-centric. Where is "usability" in this?
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Damn, should have previewed:))
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Another factor is that Win4Lin uses the native file system whereas VMWare creates a "virtual disk" which ends up being a huge file on your drive somewhere.
You can also set VMWare to use physical drive instead of virtual.
Your point are, generally, correct. Even though Win4Lin biased:)
If you were like me (or in my shoes, rather) your preference might be different -- I need to be able to run an alternative OS within a W2K environment -- to carry around things that don't run native (or don't run well native) in W2K.
Please do not Cygwin me -- Cygwin still has a long way to go to really be there. (As a pet PV -- let me know once you're able to compile stock Tcl/Tk under Cygwin and also AOLServer).
Keep in mind that notes was not originally IBM's creation. IBM owns it since buying Lotus. All Lotus products had "non-standard" UI features, that is from the dominant standard POV.
Neither is such a great innovation (more an improvement), and I would generally agree with the parent -- there is a lot more "copying" and "catching-up" than real "innovation" (although there is a certain amount of it, but I can't think of anything really striking). There are also thing like "improvement on ideas" -- that is definitely there, but largely because when one walks a path that's been walked on before it is easier to improve. With little legacy background it is easier to make changes.
And, please, everyone's favorite PV of "I can use any of these 42 WMs" on *NIX -- that is not the point of using/running *NIX.
Well, one thing you have to aknowledge that for change philg is not pushing Tcl as scripting solution. You *do* know what he thinks (used to?) about Perl, don't you?:)
Still, what is the point? Eye candy? What good is 20 layers of documnts, notes, editor panes, file manager windows and icons on a narrow (gasp) 21" monitor? The one that represents how much of your true field of vision? Why would pseudo 3D make it any easier, if most of the metaphors that would be dragged into it are crippled?
Pseudo 3D (since the medium is really 2D -- unless we're talking about that fog display) will unlikely be able to help you much there. The great benefit of your cluttered real 3D desktop is how wide and fully-emersing it is. I'd say that until your display is moved off a static point on top of your desk to somewhere where it is between you and the rest of the world (glasses? eye band? contacts? brain implant?) all of this 3D tinkering will be mostly eye-candy, not usefull enough...
Problem is that in this case your system would hardly be usable out-of-the-box. Then again, the sam ething as has been done for perl (and applies to X as well) could be done: remove from base, but provide a package as part of the install process.
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You can check with Psi developers on that.
Do a search on 'buran' on google. Truth of the matter, and the point of the story is that in US American achievements in space are given *far* greater emphasis/importance than anybody else's. We in Russia new more about Apollo, Saturn, etc. than you about Luna, Lunokhod, Venera and lots of other things. Hell, many younger Americans believe that *US* had put the first man in space!
$ ls /var/db/pkg|wc -l
334
but that's on a recently re-installed box, I think I used to be up in 500+
Of course it is -- anyone claiming this to be the end of fxree simply don't understand the difference b/w "core team" and "developmetn team" -- the former is like a board of directors, if you wish, while the latter is what makes or breaks the project.
yep, solaris indeed is listed as supported. as for 'gnome-only' -- you don't have to have *all* of gnome, albeit a large portion of it...
I thought (but have not bothered to check just now) that it was a linux only affair...
Yeah, maybe. That's after they managed to surpass recommended limit of 1e6 rows per table (just in case it corrupts). And even in current incarnation they still don't (always) get ANSI joins right. What is even funnier, they sometimes don't get their own syntax right either. I had a couple of cases when I ended up having to *emmulate* a join via UNION SELECT with EXISTS/NOT EXISTS!
As should have been expected this thread gets all lost in "MySQL lacks [insert many of ACID and a bunch of other features]" and "who ever needs this stuff anyway!" posts. Which is common for any thread about MySQL. It is all very personal -- you either like it or you don't basically. It is like vi vs. EMACS of databases argument. And as always our wonderful geek crowd will never ever agree on anything here. Just like in the UserLinux GNOME vs. KDE debate, and a ton of others.
Not to be critical -- it just *is* that way and will hardly change, not in our lifetime, at least.
(promise, last one) they should also, probably, look at their site logo:
UN UsabilityNews.Com
reads "unusability news"
And this one:
is simply hillarious: of course they did! That stupid jumping-singing red and yellow thing that has been distracting them at the corner of an eye!One more -- possibly (one of) the conclusion(s) should have: "people dislike advertising and will adapt their behavior to escape viewing it."
It is interesting that the sight is called "Usability News" -- yet the article is entirely where-should-we-put-an-ad-to-trick-a-user-centric. Where is "usability" in this?
Damn, should have previewed :))
You can also set VMWare to use physical drive instead of virtual.
Your point are, generally, correct. Even though Win4Lin biased :)
If you were like me (or in my shoes, rather) your preference might be different -- I need to be able to run an alternative OS within a W2K environment -- to carry around things that don't run native (or don't run well native) in W2K.
Please do not Cygwin me -- Cygwin still has a long way to go to really be there. (As a pet PV -- let me know once you're able to compile stock Tcl/Tk under Cygwin and also AOLServer).
Keep in mind that notes was not originally IBM's creation. IBM owns it since buying Lotus. All Lotus products had "non-standard" UI features, that is from the dominant standard POV.
Yeah, but the banner of W2K says "built on NT technology"
well, apache is not an innovation -- if you remember the history, it's a-patch to NCSA httpd...
ssh is not linux innovation -- check the history book as well...
can't see anything terribly innovative in khtml as YAHRE (yet-another-html-render-engine)...
Neither is such a great innovation (more an improvement), and I would generally agree with the parent -- there is a lot more "copying" and "catching-up" than real "innovation" (although there is a certain amount of it, but I can't think of anything really striking). There are also thing like "improvement on ideas" -- that is definitely there, but largely because when one walks a path that's been walked on before it is easier to improve. With little legacy background it is easier to make changes.
And, please, everyone's favorite PV of "I can use any of these 42 WMs" on *NIX -- that is not the point of using/running *NIX.
It may be quite early, but you already can do basic stuff with it:
i d= 90742
g em ent/user_interface
http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_
http://openacs.org/projects/dotwrk/project_mana
With all due respect to Dia -- it is hardly Visio replacement. Afew PVs:
* Having to go through 3-5 clicks just to change a width or color of a line -- gimme a break.
* Can't apply changes to group of objects.
* Annoying menu structure -- it is even worse than that of The Gimp.
* On Windows -- it's just too quirky and to slow (which largely GTK+ problem, admitted by the porters, hopefully will get better, eventually...)
One can use Dia if one has to -- but it really is *not* a drop-in Visio replacement.
Speaking of which -- with each new release it (Visio) gets worse...
Well, one thing you have to aknowledge that for change philg is not pushing Tcl as scripting solution. You *do* know what he thinks (used to?) about Perl, don't you? :)
...of who posts more dupes? Would be interesting statistics to see :)
Hit stop and let it load.
Still, what is the point? Eye candy? What good is 20 layers of documnts, notes, editor panes, file manager windows and icons on a narrow (gasp) 21" monitor? The one that represents how much of your true field of vision? Why would pseudo 3D make it any easier, if most of the metaphors that would be dragged into it are crippled?
Pseudo 3D (since the medium is really 2D -- unless we're talking about that fog display) will unlikely be able to help you much there. The great benefit of your cluttered real 3D desktop is how wide and fully-emersing it is. I'd say that until your display is moved off a static point on top of your desk to somewhere where it is between you and the rest of the world (glasses? eye band? contacts? brain implant?) all of this 3D tinkering will be mostly eye-candy, not usefull enough...
Problem is that in this case your system would hardly be usable out-of-the-box. Then again, the sam ething as has been done for perl (and applies to X as well) could be done: remove from base, but provide a package as part of the install process.